Pros

Pro

I2P support via plugin

I2P or Invisible Internet Project is a decentralized anonymizing network. Vuze has a plugin accessible from the plugin wizard that adds support for I2P downloading, seeding, and I2P DHT support.

Pro

Swarm merging

Combines the swarms of multiple torrents that have the same file, allowing for faster downloads, and completion of torrents lacking available pieces.

This means if a torrent is stuck at 99%, Vuze can add another torrent with the same file, and only have to download the 1% from other other torrent's peers.

Pro

Full-featured

Vuze covers basics such as Prioritization, Selective Downloading, DHT, PEX and Magnet URIs as well as Broadcatching, Sequential downloading (paid) and Search. It includes MSE/PE for security. It has graphical and web interfaces. Has UPnP, NAT-PMP, NAT traversal for automatic router configuration. Has UDP tracker and µTP data transfer protocol support. Even covers IPv6, web seeding, Embedded tracker, Super-seeding and proxy servers. And it auto-updates.

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Built in search

You can use built in search to find your torrent. Type torrent hash, name, or a tag in search box next to "open torrent" in main UI and Vuze will search in both Swarm and Web for your torrent file.

Pro

Extensible via plugins

Vuze has a lots of plugins available that are capable of performing a wide variety of tasks including automatically categorizing torrents, adding remote access solutions and even playing games such as Sudoku.

Pro

Allows easily customizing a torrent's tracker list

It's possible to edit the tracker list to add or delete trackers. Vuze allows saving a list of preferred trackers as a "template" which can then be either merged with existing trackers or used to replace them.

Pro

Can bind downloads to VPN

Vuze can detect if it's running over a VPN. Once a connection to the VPN is lost, all traffic becomes public. To avoid this Vuze can be set to run only over a VPN.

Pro

Device playback

With device playback on, it's possible to convert and transfer media for playback on a designated device by simply dragging and dropping the desired file. Device playback supports game consoles, Tivo, and iTunes.

Pro

Built-in video player

Vuze has a capable video player built-in with reasonable support for most common video formats, subtitles and audio switching.

Pro

Fast

Fast and intuitive to use.

Pro

Easy subscriptions

Follow your favorites type of torrents such as movies, songs, and apps. Just add the torrent file and look for the RSS icon next to it and subscribe to find all new related to your favorites type.

Pro

Built-in virus protection

Scans all Vuze downloads for malicious files.

Pro

User friendly interface

Pro

Perfect for Tivo

The way it works hand and hand with Tivo is awesome. It allows you to have all your media in one box.

Pro

Extensive wiki for support

Although an ongoing work, almost everything one needs for proper config is there.

Pro

Cross platform

Usable in Linux, as well as Windows and MAC OSx

Pro

Watch it working

You can track what's going on easily in the app thanks to its UI.

Pro

Vuze is a reliable client with many plugins that actually work. intuitive interface and seamless operations make it an easy choice

Pro

Control download priority

You can control which files are downloaded, in what priority, and not have to go searching for the features.

Pro

Swarm Discoveries function

Vuze uses Swarm Discoveries, which allows you to search for similar downloads the user may be interested in.

Pro

Ability to run thousands of torrents at a time

Because you can select how much memory is allocated to Vuze it is possible to run far more torrents on it than on other torrent programs. Many users report being able to run in excess of 3,000 torrents with no problems.

Pro

Ability to run thousands of torrents at a time

Because you can select how much memory is allocated to Vuze it is possible to run far more torrents on it than on other torrent programs. Many users report being able to run in excess of 3,000 torrents with no problems.

Pro

Ability to run thousands of torrents at a time

Because you can select how much memory is allocated to Vuze it is possible to run far more torrents on it than on other torrent programs. Many users report being able to run in excess of 3,000 torrents with no problems.

Pro

Easy open and find torrents and fast

Pro

CLI interface

Pro

Reasonable feature set

rTorrent covers basics such as Prioritization, Selective Downloading, DHT, PEX and Magnet URIs. It includes MSE/PE for security. It has graphical and command line interfaces. Has UDP tracker and µTP data transfer protocol support. Even covers Super-seeding.

Pro

RUTorrent is a great web interface for RTorrent

Pro

Supports thousands of torrents easily

Pro

No extraneous functions

Torrent is a CLEAN client. Meaning there’s no search engine, tools, or other things to bloat the program.

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Cons

Con

Pushes crapware

The installation bundles a lot of useless pieces of software. While they can be opted out of, it is not a pleasant experience.

Con

Requires Java

Vuze requires installing Java Runtime Environment on the users PC to function that's known for being naggy.

Con

Has ads

The free edition of Vuze includes ads. Ads can be removed by purchasing the $29.99 Vuze+.

Con

Bloated

Con

No built-in local peer discovery

Local peer discovery requires a plugin.

Con

Enclosed sequential downloading support is behind a paywall

Sequential downloading can be used to stream media files such as video and audio while the download is still in progress. This can be streamed via the html protocol into another video app for free, but doing it with the built in video player is pay-locked.

Con

Subscription options are lacking

Although Vuze supports subscriptions (RSS feeds) the custom options are seriously lacking. In uTorrent you can set it up so that it only downloads the most recent episode of a show and only one copy of it, with Vuze if you have Auto Download turned on you get everything you didn't manually filter out. In a TV series with 30 episodes per season you need to manually add every episode that you've already downloaded to the "do not download" list and if there are multiple versions of the latest episode you can expect to have Vuze download them all. There is a plugin that promises to make this process simpler, but it seems that there are a lot of unnecessary hoops to jump through.

That said it's a small price to pay to get the functionality back. uTorrent/BitTorrent's feeds have suddenly stopped working for many due to the recent shutdown of Torcache

Con

Can't bind to VPN

If VPN drops, BSOD comes.

Con

No tracker exchange

Tracker exchange functionality allows peers to exchange information about trackers of a given file. It is another way of ensuring that the file is downloaded from the optimal source. µTorrent lacks this functionality.

Con

Can't go back

When you get linked to a torrent page and want to go back to the search results - you can't. So you have to recommence your search again.

Con

Can no longer see larger files

No movies and no green files.

Con

Upgrading is equal to manually downloading the latest version and installing it

It can't be done silently in the background without notice.

Con

Not the most intuitive interface

Con

Slow and heavy app

It's just too much for people who just want a torrent downloader. The app is difficult to understand, but above all is very slow. uTorrent would download films, games, etc so fast (up to 3.5mbps), this app is too slow.

Con

Old

It looks older it needs to look more modern.

Con

Causes kernal panics on OSX (Mac) almost everytime

This is extremely irritating and this has been an issue for some time. Apple isn't in a hurry to fix it. Vuze should have taken care of this a long time ago.

Con

No IPv6 support

Con

Requires manual router configuration

The client lacks support UPnP, NAT-PMP or NAT traversal for automatic router configuration.

Con

No proxy server support

Con

Lacks µTP transfer protocol support

Con

No tracker exchange

Tracker exchange functionality allows peers to exchange information about trackers of a given file. It is another way of ensuring that the file is downloaded from the optimal source. rTorrent lacks this functionality.

Con

No search

Con

No embedded tracker

An embedded tracker allows turning the client into a server offering an easy way of sharing files with others. rTorrent lacks embedded tracker support so another method of sharing or different client has to be used to share files.

Con

No web seeding

Web seeding support allows downloading file parts from an HTTP source alongside the swarm. It's usually used for long-term seeding and easing some of the load on web hosts that supply direct downloads by offering a BitTorrent download as an alternative while still ensuring that the file is always available in its entirety regardless of the swarm. rTorrent lacks this functionality.

Con

No built-in web interface

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No local peer discovery

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Files can't be downloaded sequentially

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